Is it still not possible to adjust transparency/colour of panel in KDE4???>:(
I am sure kde3.5 was far more configurable, intuitive and user friendly…
true, kde3 was much better
I use oxygen theme and it’s fairly transparent, so is slimglow, I think glassified is too. Get the community repo it has a fair bit of stuff like that.
The kde4 stable are now supplying 4.3.4
Index of /repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/STABLE:/Desktop/openSUSE_11.2
Yeh plasma not being able to theme the way I want it is a turn off point.
Granted I like some of the plasma themes and its easy to install new themes and configure your themes to a certain point.
But the theme saver is borked
I have 4.3.4, Thing is I like whatever “theme” I have, I just don’t like my main taskbar panel to be transparent, I would also like to be able to change the colour, font colour of text etc etc.
Me too, there is not too much one can do to configure plasma
My Taskbar isn’t transparent using defaults from KDE4:/STABLE:/Desktop/ (openSUSE 11.2) at moment.
I haven’t found time to really discover how to do much with Plasma. The widgets are kind of cool, dragging and dropping URLs from browser onto Kget’s drop target is nice.
When you 1/2 expect to have to remove the whole .kde4 directory for some reason or other in the not too distant future, tailoring & customising the desktop seems a bit pointless.
How I am looking forward to a truly stable KDE again… 4.3 is almost there now.
Heres hoping KDE 4.4 will be a great release, each version of KDE4 has been a quantum leap of its previous version with the exception of 4.0.
I just hope KDE 4.5 wont be the final KDE4, as this means we have to probably start all over again in KDE5.
It is possible to change it, but it’s a hard way;). I got this link from somebody on the forum earlier:
[Development/Tutorials/Plasma/Theme - KDE TechBase](Development/Tutorials/Plasma/Theme - KDE TechBase)
You do not need to create a complete new theme off course, just follow the link to find which files you need to change in order to have a different background. Plasma uses svg images so you will need a program like inkscape to make it work. Also make sure you make changes in the right directory (opaque or not opaque). Good luck!
Personal Settings > Advanced tab > Desktop Theme Details
You can configure your panel theme to be from some other theme than the rest.
I would also like to be able to change the colour, font colour of text etc etc.
You can change the color scheme in Configure Desktop or System Settings ( kcontrol was the name for this app in kde3.5)
Fonts colors, window borders, selection area coloring, etc.
Enter Appearance then select Colors there are scheme’s to play with but I mainly just use the color tab to change the things that are bugging me. Then I return to the scheme’s tab and save my changes as new scheme which I can export to my other systems for use.
As far as installing themes that is easy. 1 don’t use the sort by latest options as most of those themes are what is considered a beta releases on kde-look.org. Use the most download and highest rated options almost all of these will install without an issue. 2 Themes on Kde-look.org should be consider best effort as they are the work of users for the most part and not large companies. I am glad that opensuse seems to have placed a block on themes that will not work, I remember using other distro’s that allowed themes that wouldn’t work to install and of cores brake your desktop.
One last option to control the way a theme works you can use Personal Settings > Advanced tab > Desktop Theme Details to effect just certain parts of the desktop such as the task bar. This means you can choose to use glassified which is very transparent and the opensuse theme together. The opensuse theme can be applied just to the panel(taskbar) making it solid while everything else is transparent.
Open Configure Desktop go to the Advanded tab and then click Desktop theme Details in this dialog you will be able to assign different themes to different areas of the desktop. There is one thing to keep in mind when using this options you must remember to right click the desktop and run desktop setting, then select customized to apply your changes. (down side is you will have to do this every time you change something)
Thanks for the replies folks. Whilst randomly wandering around, I found the:
*Personal Settings > Advanced tab > Desktop Theme Details * pretty well hidden though!
Still my opinion as not very techy end-user is that the whole “themes” paradigm is not the way for linux, surely linux is about choice, and imposing a set of themes on people is restricting that, if one cannot start with a basic set up and add/change/remove and customise easily.
If some of you are KDE gurus, could you give me some tips on two small issues please, either here or in another thread if you feel it would be more widely useful.
- In KDE 3.5.1 I managed to do this, so far in KDE4 I am failing and flailing. I play poker, and use the poker clients/apps under Crossover. I would like to have launcher icons grouped together on the panel, in a sort of folder button so that hovering the mouse pops up a menu so I could choose to launch the one I want…? As I say I did this in 3.5.1 and it was exactly what I wanted.
- Clock: I think it was Conram (?) who in his screenshot has the panel clock in the centre of the taskbar. How do I do this? One kludgey way I guess would be to create three separate panels, one to left with the launchers and one to the right with the system tray, but how can I make the taskbar “wrap around” the clock according to how many windows I have open?
It’s easy.
Unlock the widgets from right click desktop.
Click the Cashew in the panel, and it will open the adjustment settings.
If you now hover over your clock the should appear a move symbol, grab the clock and drag it to where you want it.
You can drag icons from the main menu now too.
I have a top panel (set to auto hide normally), but you have to set always visible to add to it.
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- It’s easy.
Unlock the widgets from right click desktop.
Click the Cashew in the panel, and it will open the adjustment settings.- If you now hover over your clock the should appear a move symbol, grab the clock and drag it to where you want it.
- You can drag icons from the main menu now too.
- I have a top panel (set to auto hide normally), but you have to set always visible to add to it.
- No it isn’t!!!
- Do this and the clock “pings” back to wherever it was before
- No you can’t, tried it 1000 times…
- I have one of these… NP
Thanks Caf, but on my box it simply ain’t so!!!
Unlock widgets
- Try right click the icon - add to panel
Hang on for more info soon
- You would need to move the Task Manager or adjust it’s size, because it occupies the main part of the panel
Thank-you Caf, in the OP I was asking if it is poss to WRAP the task manager AROUND the clock,
As for 2)
Only SOME icons have “add to panel” on right-click. I want (I think) a folder on the panel, or rather a menu item with sub-menu items, on the launcher panel, so that the list pops out on mouse hover and I can select from there the app I need to launch.
I managed to get this on KDE 3.5.1… I might fire it up later and do some screenies…
ps @Caf… I did in the end get 11.1 back in grub… but foobarred WinXp whilst doing so …
Couldn’t you just add another launcher like Lancelot to the panel and edit it specifically for the features you want?
I guess so, but this goes back to KDE4 being LESS customisable than its predeccessor, rather than more, in KDE3 I could do this, now I need someone elses “Lancelot” stuff to do it, same as picking bits out of other’s “themes” when I want simply to change stuff I have… (mind you going back to 11.1/3.5.1 for a couple of minutes, it seems very “old” now, and I have only used 4.3 for a month or so!
Menu prob done, Cheers Caf!
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A job well done. Pat yourself on the back;)